Psalms 1 •Where to Get Help in the Book of Psalms (Chart)
BOOK ONE (Psalms 1:1–41:13)
In this book, the psalm writers praise God for his justice, express confidence in God’s compassion, recount the depravity of humanity, plead for vindication, ask God to deliver them from their enemies, speak of the blessedness of the forgiven sinner, and portray God as a shepherd. We should worship God with the same sense of adoration found in these psalms.
Theme: Life’s two roads. The life of the faithful person is contrasted with the life of the faithless person.
1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. +
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. +
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. +
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. +
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. +
6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. +